The high in my part of Los Angeles has hovered around 40ºC this week and cracked it a few times. To say things have been hot feels like an understatement. It’s a heat that’s exhausting, a heat that strains my poor aircon (and the city’s power grid, if yesterday’s rolling blackouts were any indication). There’s… Continue reading Heat Wave
Author: Joshua Tong
Shaun of The Normal
I saw Shaun of The Dead today during its rerelease in theaters. It’s a movie I haven’t seen in over a decade so it was fun to revisit it, especially in a theater with all the fun that entails. The movie’s still great, loads of fun and you can see so many of the markers… Continue reading Shaun of The Normal
Perfectly Fine
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen Twister, but like most children of the nineties, I've seen various snatches of it on tv and studied the VHS case. Twister was just another movie that I never saw and the sequel was going to follow its shoes until I decided to do a double feature with it… Continue reading Perfectly Fine
Back To The Battlegrounds
Through an endeavor of emulation, I’ve managed to get Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds running on a Mac. The little hiccups of wanting to play a game that you own the Windows edition of on Steam when you exist in a Mac-based environment. But I got it working! And I, once again, revisited an old Star… Continue reading Back To The Battlegrounds
Inconvenience
In I Am Bread you play as a slice of bread that roams around a room with the goal of becoming toast. It’s very silly and also quite frustrating. You don’t move around in a conventional video game way, instead, each shoulder button on the controller lets a corner of the bread 'grab' a surface… Continue reading Inconvenience
Catalogued
There is a wiki for Calvin and Hobbes. I found this out while trying to find an old Foxtrot strip about the then-recently released The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (a collection I now own). My googling presented me with some results from a wiki before I eventually found the strip in question on a lovely… Continue reading Catalogued
Schedule Slip
It’s past midnight on a Saturday night, making this another instance of me missing my deadline of a Saturday for a blogpost. The day ended up being busy, which is probably another reminder that Saturdays aren’t really the most reliable to set aside time to write something. But then again, weekdays are tough too when… Continue reading Schedule Slip
Above Reproach
One of these days, I’ll probably replay Kingdom Hearts. In part because of the recent Final Fantasy kick, in part because it’s been around a decade since I last played it (and II and Chain Of Memories). If and when I do revisit it, I wonder how it’ll hold up, both as a game over… Continue reading Above Reproach
Photoblog
I got a couple rolls of film developed and decided, you know what, I’m going to post some of them here. Because it’s my blog and I can do what I want, and if that means sometimes it becomes a photoblog, so be it. Besides, photoessays are still essays, aren’t they? Death Valley, lford Delta… Continue reading Photoblog
Variations On A Theme
I finished Final Fantasy IX this week (for those keeping track at home, this is the sixth Final Fantasy since booting up VIII back in the fall of 2022). It’s a lot like the other Final Fantasies. It’s got the hero who, like in X, has to grapple with the fact that his very existence… Continue reading Variations On A Theme
Essays, Not Rants! 